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 wholly void, for the reason that, at the time of the hearing, on August 20th, a remonstrance petition was submitted to the joint board, containing 11 of the signers of the original petition, thereby reducing the number of signers there to less than a two thirds majority of the legal electors in the proposed new school district.

We are of the opinion that this case is governed by the principle con- tained in the decision of the case of Rosten v. Board of Edu. 43 N. D. 46, 173 N. W. 461. That case involved the validity of an order of the board of education of the special school district of the village of Wild Rose, by which certain territory adjacent to that district was annexed to it. There, between the time of filing the petition for annexation and the date of making the order of annexation, the signers of the original petition had withdrawn in such numbers that the board had no jurisdiction to make the order, if such withdrawals were legal.

In that case, § 949, Comp. Laws, which authorizes the annexation in certain conditions, and § 1240, Comp. Laws, which provides for giving of notice of hearing before the board, with reference to the annexation, were before this court for construction.

The latter section required that, in proceedings under § 949, fourteen days’ notice of hearing before the board should be given by publication, and that such territory should not become a part of the special district until five days after such hearing.

The section, with reference to the notice required to be given, presented for consideration in the case at bar, is § 1148, Comp. Laws. It provides:

“Whenever the board of county commissioners and county superin. tendent of schools shall be petitioned to organize a new school district or to change the boundaries of districts already organized, the county superintendent shall give public notice, for at least thirty days, to the residents of the districts whose boundaries will be affected by the organization of the new district, by mailing a notice to that effect to each school officer of such districts, and by publishing the same in the official newspaper of the county published nearest that district.”

It is clear that the school board could make no valid order of division until after the giving of the notice, in accordance with the requirements of this section. It is also clear that the board had no authority or jurisdiction to do any act, with reference to division of the school district, from the